The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 87
And the wasp answered: 'There is nothing in the world, O Gopani-Kufa, which is of such value as this Mirror, for it is a Wishing Mirror, and accomplishes the desires of him who owns it.
Who acts: wasp, nothing, O Gopani, desires · What happens: answer, be, accomplish, own, desire · To what, where: desires, Mirror, Gopani · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wasp, nothing, O Gopani, desires), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 answered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wasp | det |
| 3 | wasp | wasp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 is | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 is | punct |
| 7 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 is | expl |
| 8 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 answered | ccomp |
| 9 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 is | nsubj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 world | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 world | det |
| 12 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 nothing | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Gopani | punct |
| 14 | O | O | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Gopani | compound |
| 15 | Gopani | Gopani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 nothing | conj |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Kufa | punct |
| 17 | Kufa | Kufa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Gopani | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 value | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 value | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 value | cop |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 value | case |
| 22 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 value | amod |
| 23 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Gopani | appos |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 Mirror | case |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 Mirror | det |
| 26 | Mirror | Mirror | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 value | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Mirror | punct |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 Mirror | case |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 Mirror | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 Mirror | cop |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 Mirror | det |
| 32 | Wishing | Wishing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Mirror | compound |
| 33 | Mirror | Mirror | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 is | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 accomplishes | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 accomplishes | cc |
| 36 | accomplishes | accomplish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 is | conj |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 desires | det |
| 38 | desires | desire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 accomplishes | obj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 him | case |
| 40 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 desires | nmod |
| 41 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 owns | nsubj |
| 42 | owns | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 desires | acl:relcl |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 owns | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the wasp | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | be | present | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | O Gopani and Kufa | of such value; as this Mirror | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | wasp | for a Wishing Mirror | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | accomplish | present | nothing not said here | the desires of Gopani | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | own | present | the desires of Gopani | Mirror | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||||
| 7 | desire | Gopani | nom desire «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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